After Hours Attorney Answering Services
Your Office Closes at 5. Your Clients Don’t.

It’s a live answering service that covers your law firm’s phones whenever your office is closed — evenings, overnights, weekends and holidays. Legal-trained receptionists answer in your firm’s name, complete new client intake, take messages, schedule consultations and transfer genuine emergencies to you, so callers never reach voicemail after 5 PM.

After-hours-only coverage typically costs $79–$149 per month, making it the most affordable entry into live answering. Adding weekends and holidays runs around $99–$179/month, and upgrading to full 24/7 coverage with daytime overflow starts near $149/month. Your exact price depends on call volume — request a free quote for your firm’s number.

You forward your existing number to us at closing time — manually, on a schedule your phone system automates, or through your carrier. Callers dial the same number they always have and hear your firm’s greeting; they never know the receptionist isn’t sitting in your office. In the morning, forwarding turns off and your front desk takes over again.

Only if you want to be. You define what counts as urgent — a new arrest, an existing client emergency, a specific case type — and only those calls are transferred live. Everything else is captured as a completed intake or detailed message waiting in your inbox at 7 AM. Many attorneys route urgent overnight calls to a rotating on-call number instead of their personal cell.

Yes — and it should. Weekend and holiday calls are among the highest-intent legal calls of the year (DUI arrests spike on holiday weekends; family law calls surge right after them). Confirm any service you consider staffs holidays live rather than dropping to voicemail, and that holiday coverage doesn’t carry surcharge pricing.

Absolutely — that’s the most common setup. Your front desk handles business hours exactly as they do today, and coverage begins only when your phones forward at close. Nothing about your daytime operation changes; your firm simply stops missing the other 128 hours of the week.

Full legal intake. Receptionists follow your custom questions — case type, incident details, county, urgency, contact information — on every qualifying overnight call, and the completed intake is delivered to you instantly. A midnight caller becomes a morning follow-up with everything you need to evaluate the case already documented.

They’re delivered the moment the call ends — by email, text, or both — so nothing waits until morning unless you want it to. Many firms have intakes routed to a shared inbox their staff triages first thing, with urgent flags pushed to the attorney’s phone in real time.

Because roughly one in three legal calls comes in outside business hours, and after-hours callers are disproportionately urgent, high-value cases: arrests, accidents, family emergencies. Those callers won’t leave a voicemail — 79% hang up and dial the next firm. The firm that answers live at 11 PM is usually the firm that signs the case.

Use the short form on our pricing page — tell us your practice areas, rough call volume and the hours you need covered. We’ll build a custom after-hours plan and exact pricing around your answers and deliver it by email, with no obligation and no sales call. Most firms are live within a few business days.